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55 relations: Actinopterygii, Africa, Alfred Romer, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Barred bichir, Basel Zoo, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Bichir, Blackwater fever, British Science Association, Edwin Stephen Goodrich, Egg, Embryology, Etymology, Evolution, Evolution of fish, Family (biology), Fish, Francis Maitland Balfour, Franz Steindachner, Fresh water, Genus, George Albert Boulenger, Georges Cuvier, Greek language, Guinean bichir, Jean-Pierre Gosse, Johann Jakob Heckel, John Graham Kerr, John Samuel Budgett, Léon Vaillant, Malaria, Max Poll, Order (biology), Palaeonisciformes, Polypterus bichir, Polypterus congicus, Polypterus endlicheri, Polypterus mokelembembe, Polypterus ornatipinnis, Polypterus palmas, Polypterus polli, Polypterus senegalus, Polypterus teugelsi, Polypterus weeksii, Prefix, Reedfish, Sarcopterygii, Species, Spiracle, ..., Tetrapod, Thomas Henry Huxley, Type species, West African bichir, William Orville Ayres. Expand index (5 more) »
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Alfred Romer
Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition".
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Barred bichir
The barred bichir, armoured bichir, or banded bichir (Polypterus delhezi) is an elongated fish found in the Congo River, specifically in the upper and middle portions.
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Basel Zoo
Zoo Basel is a non-profit zoo in the city of Basel, Switzerland.
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Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.
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Bichir
Bichirs and the reedfish comprise the Polypteridae, a family of archaic-looking ray-finned fishes and the only family in the order Polypteriformes.
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Blackwater fever
Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria infection in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream (hemolysis), releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine, frequently leading to kidney failure.
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British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.
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Edwin Stephen Goodrich
Edwin Stephen Goodrich FRS (Weston-super-Mare, 21 June 1868 – Oxford, 6 January 1946), was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, palaeontology, and evolution.
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Egg
An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.
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Embryology
Embryology (from Greek ἔμβρυον, embryon, "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.
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Etymology
EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolution of fish
The evolution of fish began about 530 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis (Frank) Maitland Balfour, known as F. M. Balfour, (10 November 1851 – 19 July 1882) was a British biologist.
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Franz Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
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Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Guinean bichir
The Guinean bichir (Polypterus ansorgii) is a ray-finned fish from rivers and other freshwater habitats in Western Africa, ranging from Guinea-Bissau to Nigeria.
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Jean-Pierre Gosse
Jean-Pierre Gosse is a biologist who discovered a type of angelfish called Pterophyllum leopoldi.
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Johann Jakob Heckel
Johann Jakob Heckel (23 January 1790 – 1 March 1857) was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim in the Electoral Palatinate.
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John Graham Kerr
Sir John Graham Kerr FRS FRSE FLS FZS (18 September 1869 – 21 April 1957), known to his friends as Graham Kerr, was a British embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP).
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John Samuel Budgett
John Samuel Budgett (16 June 1872 – 19 January 1904) was a British zoologist and embryologist.
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Léon Vaillant
Léon Louis Vaillant (11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoologist.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.
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Max Poll
Max Fernand Leon Poll (21 July 1908 – 13 March 1991) was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in the Cichlidae.
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Order (biology)
In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.
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Palaeonisciformes
The Palaeonisciformes are an extinct order of early ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) which began in the Late Silurian and ended in the Late Cretaceous.
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Polypterus bichir
Polypterus bichir, the Nile bichir, is a fish which lives in the Nile and some of its tributaries in Africa.
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Polypterus congicus
Polypterus congicus, the Congo bichir, is a species of bichir with a maximum recorded size of.
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Polypterus endlicheri
Polypterus endlicheri Heckel 1847, the saddled bichir, is one of the largest species of the Polypterus genus of freshwater fish.
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Polypterus mokelembembe
Polypterus mokelembembe is a species of the fish genus Polypterus, found in the central basin of the Congo River.
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Polypterus ornatipinnis
Polypterus ornatipinnis, the ornate bichir, is a bony fish found in Lake Tanganyika and the Congo River basin in Central and East Africa.
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Polypterus palmas
Polypterus palmas, the shortfin or marbled bichir, is a fish in the Polypteridae family found in freshwater environments within a demersal depth range in tropical climates.
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Polypterus polli
Polypterus polli, Poll's bichir, is a species of bichir from the Malebo Pool and the lower and central basins of the Congo River.
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Polypterus senegalus
The Senegal bichir (Polypterus senegalus) also known as the gray bichir and Cuvier's bichir, is sometimes called the "dinosaur eel" (a misnomer, as the creature is neither an eel nor a dinosaur) also called "Dinosaur Bichir" or "dragon fish" in the pet trade.
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Polypterus teugelsi
Polypterus teugelsi (also known as the Teugelsi bichir) is a species of carnivorous, nocturnal bichir (a group of ray-finned fishes) that lives in the Cross River drainage basin in the country of Cameroon.
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Polypterus weeksii
Polypterus weeksii, the mottled bichir, is a fish in the family Polypteridae found in the central basin of the Congo River.
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Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
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Reedfish
The reedfish, ropefish (more commonly used in the United States), or snakefish, Erpetoichthys calabaricus, is a species of freshwater fish in the bichir family and order.
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Sarcopterygii
The Sarcopterygii or lobe-finned fish (from Greek σαρξ sarx, flesh, and πτερυξ pteryx, fin) – sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii ("fringe-finned fish", from Greek κροσσός krossos, fringe) – constitute a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) of the bony fish, though a strict cladistic view includes the terrestrial vertebrates.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spiracle
Spiracles are openings on the surface of some animals, which usually lead to respiratory systems.
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Tetrapod
The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).
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West African bichir
The West African bichir or retropinnis bichir (Polypterus retropinnis), is a freshwater fish in the family Polypteridae, is found in the central Congo River basin and Ogooué River in Africa.
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William Orville Ayres
William Orville Ayres (September 11, 1817 – April 30, 1887) was an American physician and ichthyologist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypterus
